Unbelievable...this is the best one yet. Although it kind of sickens me that Filoni is treading all over the Tartakovsky rendition of that battle. Sorry Dave, he did it better. He did EVERYTHING better.

That aside though, pure awesomeness. Someone please confirm that those were the sticky Felucian things I saw talking to C-3PO...I love how bizarre and un-Star Warsy those things are.

They gotta make that Matrix-esque tunneling droid ship too.

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I always saw the 2-D toon as perhaps coming from the onset of the war... As the war opens, small civil wars that were just simmering begin to boil over, and they inevitably take sides in the greater conflict... I can see these as being two separate battles then. Seps driven out once, but decide to open up that front again later in the war, for one strategic reason or another.

To be honest I was kind of expecting more from the new trailer, but I'd gander that Filoni's waiting to show more at SDCC. I wonder if this season will have a central theme.

I'm starting to wonder if Filoni is trying to re-do many previously done battles. He did it with Kamino in Season 3 (that battle had previously shown up in a comic) and he's doing it again with Mon Calamari. By the looks of Ahoska's presence in the battle, it makes sense that he's trying to slip her into previously established lore so that it doesn't look like she's been absent in more than half the stuff created before she was.

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Tartakovsky's stuff isn't "canon" and TCW is, or that's the perception. I fully expect the series to end (?) with a redo of the Battle of Coruscant that won't be the exact same take as Tartakovsky's.

I noticed Padme at the Mon Calamari battle. Ummm...yeah, whatever. Ms. Aggressive Negotiations sure likes the action. Also, another Padme outfit that'll never be made into a toy.

I liked the line "Great, it's gonna be another one of those planets." Self-mockery of the frequent, irritatingly cutesy aspects of Star Wars, or maybe it was edited to seem that way.

In that vein, seeing Grievous get beat by Gungans will be amusing, if only because Grievous is an overrated menace who was haphazardly thrown into ROTS for what had to be at least 50% marketing/lincensing reasons (basically Old Man Dooku wasn't a sellable fun character).

Maybe. it is my recollection that the Mon Calamari were fighting the Quarren, not the Separatists per se.

The Quarren Isolationist League (or whatever the f it is) are Separatists... In the 2-D toon, they've got the support of the Seppies, including battledroids on freaky skiffs, and the big lobster cannon thing.

Basically, like I said, I'm kinda looking at them as possibly two separate offensives in the war... One early in the war, the other later, in an attempt to grasp a strategic planet... Mon Cal's always described as such throughout the saga, so I like that idea... For me, a lot of it will depend on what the Clones ultimately look like. If they've got a more ROTS look than the AOTC look of the 2-D aquatic Clones, I think that'll lend some credence to that... Or it could be a reimagining.

Either way though, there's lots of room to cram the two together as not cancelling one another out... Maybe one is the offensive in one area, the other is an offensive in another part of the planet. Perhaps different points in the war all together as I was theorizing. Also could be they're two offensives in rapid succession... There's a ton of "It could be...." type scenarios. I loved the 2-D incarnation, but I'm open to what the 3-D toon is going to deliver.

I expect Hasbro will probably have to violate their own "He Man Woman Hater's Club" mentality and actually make a figure of her too. The horrors!

I hate that they are bringing that idiotic kid Lux back though. "Hey, I don't want to be a Separatist anymore so I will run away and join a terrorist group that is backed by those same Separatists." Brilliant.

Hopefully they will just kill him off outright. Jedis don't need love interests.

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With the Mando armor there will not be cleavage. That should be enough for one to be bought out of the back room at Target before it ever makes it to a peg, and then is never re ordered in favor of 24 arf troopers that were shipped from a warehouse overstock. Maybe she will shoot Lux and save us the trouble of finding him in a store as wel.